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My aunt is OK, and I don't really mind her as a visitor.
However.
My mother is trying to press furniture on her.
Furniture that is currently IN USE.
We have a set of bookshelves behind the sofa that HAS to be there to keep the cats from scratching the sofa up. Also, lots of stuff is stored on it, and the lamps that light most of the room are kept on top of it. This is a necessary component of furniture in the room.
And my mother is trying to give the set to my aunt. "She needs shelves! I hate these!"
Granted, these shelves are relatively ugly, and we are planning to get rid of them at some point in the future. We've had them all my life. They're modular things from the 70s, and they look sort of 17th-century-Spanish, with turned "wood" (dark plastic with a grain and antiquing, actually pretty realistic-looking) spindles. You can put them up in tons of different arrangements. All the shelves we had in FL are not currently in use; I don't know where they are, to be honest. This represents maybe half of what we were once using.
But if my aunt "needs shelves" - look, she doesn't need these shelves that we're currently using. Tall bookshelves are inordinately cheap at WalMart, Target, etc, and a lot more practical for almost anything except the way we're currently using this modular set. And she can afford them. She's an insurance exec. I wouldn't care if the shelves were disassembled and sitting against a wall somewhere. We wouldn't need them at all if my mom had bought a console table like I suggested when we first moved here. (The fact that she dithered is also the reason why we don't have a dining table.) But we ARE using them and I DO care.
She also tried to pass off the entryway table. "But it didn't fit in the car!"
*facepalm*
My aunt is OK, and I don't really mind her as a visitor.
However.
My mother is trying to press furniture on her.
Furniture that is currently IN USE.
We have a set of bookshelves behind the sofa that HAS to be there to keep the cats from scratching the sofa up. Also, lots of stuff is stored on it, and the lamps that light most of the room are kept on top of it. This is a necessary component of furniture in the room.
And my mother is trying to give the set to my aunt. "She needs shelves! I hate these!"
Granted, these shelves are relatively ugly, and we are planning to get rid of them at some point in the future. We've had them all my life. They're modular things from the 70s, and they look sort of 17th-century-Spanish, with turned "wood" (dark plastic with a grain and antiquing, actually pretty realistic-looking) spindles. You can put them up in tons of different arrangements. All the shelves we had in FL are not currently in use; I don't know where they are, to be honest. This represents maybe half of what we were once using.
But if my aunt "needs shelves" - look, she doesn't need these shelves that we're currently using. Tall bookshelves are inordinately cheap at WalMart, Target, etc, and a lot more practical for almost anything except the way we're currently using this modular set. And she can afford them. She's an insurance exec. I wouldn't care if the shelves were disassembled and sitting against a wall somewhere. We wouldn't need them at all if my mom had bought a console table like I suggested when we first moved here. (The fact that she dithered is also the reason why we don't have a dining table.) But we ARE using them and I DO care.
She also tried to pass off the entryway table. "But it didn't fit in the car!"
*facepalm*
